Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto Audiobook

Quotes

• “A devastating multipronged attack.”

  — Newsweek

• “Almond is dead serious: Supporting a spectacle that causes brain damage is immoral.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “An unapologetic, frontal assault on the game’s role in American culture.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Almond’s…wide-ranging argument that the time has come to abandon football—particularly but not exclusively the NFL—as a sport built on violence, racism, economic exploitation of poor kids, corrupt dealmaking with local governments over stadiums, and a willingness to find it entertaining to watch people suffer brain damage.”

  — NPR

• “A book that’s part journalism, part memoir, part cultural harpooning.”

  — Kansas City Star, a FYI Book Club selection

• “Powerful… Almond is a sympathetic narrator, his evidence incontrovertible, the moral authority firmly on his side.”

  — Harper’s

• “Against Football is, at bottom, a love letter from a heartbroken fan, notable for his eloquence and clarity…A first-rate piece of journalism and a great read.”

  — Portland Press Herald (Maine)

• “A powerful polemic.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Comic, compassionate, and thought-provoking.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Almond makes a convincing case for the theory that Americans have turned to football in order to meet spiritual needs that arose as a result of industrial and social progress.

  — Publishers Weekly